4, 6 and 20 for dawn, 33 for orla ?? 🥺
4. what is their comfort food?
bread! i think back when she was still living in rue's road, she was making bread all the time, constantly kneading dough under clean paws and finding comfort in the action. not to turn her into me for a moment, but banana bread is what she bakes the most, for sure. i mentioned once on twitter that i see all my characters as asian, so i also think she would like pandesal, which is this delicious roll in filipino cuisine! really sweet and really light! when i visited the philippines with my family a couple of years ago, a man would be going through the neighborhood every morning with bags of them freshly baked, and we would have it for breakfast. i like to think the same thing happened in dawn's town!
6. what quality do they like the most about themselves?
her loyalty to the people that she loves! whether they are family or they are friends, the bonds she has created with them are the things she grasps hardest, in spite of but also maybe in part because of those from before that turned her away when she needed them and their support the most.
20. describe one of your favorite rp moments with this character
dawn returning tanya's shoe to her! she managed to salvage it from the fucking shark that took it from her by slicing it in half, but she held on to it until they were far from monachus and those memories, she was able to restore it to the best condition that it could be, and tanya was able to get a prosthetic leg to wear it on! it was a real prince charming moment. dawn was on bended knee when she was slipping it on and everything. (also, of course, using a wish to bring tanya back to life.)
33. when creating your character, did you take inspiration from characters in other media? or just other media in general? name them, if any!
i drew so much inspiration from other characters when creating orla! beatrice from over the garden wall is the first character that comes to mind, but if i'm being honest, melanie lynskey's characters in ever after and heavenly creatures also have that strong pull of association. (her at that age in those roles is what i imagine orla looks like in human form.) other forms of inspiration include: robin of robin robin fame, claire of a short hike fame, fawn of tinker bell fame, a certain central pairing of spop fame, this art of charlie brown of peanuts fame, and also? aly michalka of aly and aj fame. just in the pretty places music video, though.